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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
OFFICE ACTING SUB. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER, DISTRICT OF THOMASVILLE,
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA Dec. 12th 1865

Capt. W.W. Deane:
Asst. Adjt. General:

Sir:
I respectfully recommend that transportation be furnished the persons referred to in the accompanying Pass; from Thomasville to Savannah. It will be necessary to give Separate papers for R. R. & Steamer. There are two old helpless negro women here, that I respectfully request passes, to send them to Savannah to the Freedmen's Hospital.

It will be less expensive to the Gov. to send them there, then it will to establish a hospital here. If I should feed, clothe or establish a hospital here, there would be no limit to the demand to provide for the indigent & helpless negroes.

These women are some who were turned adrift last July, & have been taken